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T. E. Lawrence to Mrs Thomas Hardy

Karachi

11.1.27

Dear Mrs. Hardy,

Forster gave me your message about T.H. and our
parting at Max Gate. It was my doing. The afternoon was raw and miserable, like the day, and when T.H. turned back into the house to
get a shawl (as I guessed) instantly I ran the bicycle out into the
road and away, so that no possible reproach might lie against me for
having helped him into the danger of a chill.

The knowing you and having the freedom of Max Gate has been a
delightful privilege of mine for nearly four years. I cannot tell you
how grateful I am to you both: and how much I look forward to finding
you there when I come back. Eighty-six is nothing of an age, so long
as its bearer is not content with it; in fact it is still fourteen
years short of a decent score in cricket.

I hope poor Wessex has a peaceful parting. The killing of animals
just because they are ill or old is not a medicine we apply to our own
species.

Karachi feels inordinately far away from every interest I ever had.
However it will pass.

Yours sincerely

T E Shaw

Source:

DG 503

Checked:

dn/

Last revised:

9 February 2006

T. E. Lawrence chronology

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1888 16 August: born
at Tremadoc, Wales

1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys

1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909

1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British
Museum's excavations at Carchemish

1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo

1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt

1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference

1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office

1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF

1923 January: discharged from the RAF

1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps

1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant

1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah

1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven
Pillars, published

1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey

1929-33: stationed at Plymouth

1931: started working on RAF boats

1932: his translation of the Odyssey published

1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe

1935 February: retired from the RAF

1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May

1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset

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